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Why does asparagus make your pee smell?
I would eat it a lot more often if it didn't produce such a potent smell. And my roommate complains. :-)
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- 2 decades agoFavorite Answer
The smell is caused by various sulfur-containing degradation products (e.g. mercaptans and thioesters). As a result of studies it was not only shown that only around 40% of the test persons displayed this characteristic smell, but also that not everyone is able to smell the odor once it is produced.
[Just flush quickly!]
Also intersting...Because of its shape, Asparagus was once believed to have aphrodisiac effects.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus - Anonymous2 decades ago
This odor is provoked by the presence of an amino sulfurated acid (the asparagine amino-acide) that, at the time of the digestion, forms méthyl-mercaptan which the sulfur has a strong odor.
Source(s): http://dispourquoipapa.free.fr/homme/ho0047.htm (it's in french)
